Welcome. This year as part of our Best of the County 2017 coverage we asked you,the reader, to weigh in via online voting. And you did, casting more than 1, 100 votes incategories like food, drink, shopping, recreation and personal beauty. In the following pageswe highlight our editors’ picks in these same categories, also indicating the onesyou thought were the best — the golden poppy means it was a top vote getter inour online poll. Did we miss a standout local attraction in the following pages?